Infosecurity News
UK Charities Offered Free Cyber Essentials Support
The NCSC’s new Funded Cyber Essentials Programme will support SMEs as well as charities
Ukraine: Russian Cyber-Attacks Should Be Considered War Crimes
A Ukrainian official revealed that evidence of Russian cyber-attacks are being gathered to support potential war crime prosecutions
Freejacking Campaign By PurpleUrchin Bypasses Captchas
The threat actors also deployed more aggressive techniques for mining CPU resources
ChatGPT Used to Develop New Malicious Tools
These include infostealers, multi-layer encryption tools and dark web marketplace scripts
Dark Web Actors Fight For Drug Trafficking and Illegal Pharmacy Supremacy
Following the takedown of the Hydra Marketplace in 2022, 10 darknet markets rose to fill the void
Global Cyber-Attack Volume Surges 38% in 2022
Last year was also worst on record for UK businesses
Threat Actors Spread RAT Via Pokemon NFT Card Site
Phishing page lures unsuspecting users into installing remote access malware
FCC Wants to Accelerate Breach Reporting for Telcos
Proposals designed to strengthen consumer protections
WhatsApp Unveils Proxy Support to Tackle Internet Censorship
The Meta-owned firm also compiled a guide designed to help users set up their own proxy servers
Blind Eagle Hacking Group Targets South America With New Tools
Security experts from Check Point Research unveiled the findings in a new advisory
US Family Planning Non-Profit MFHS Confirms Ransomware Attack
The non-profit said its systems were compromised between August 2021 and April 2022
UK Schools Hit by Mass Leak of Confidential Data
Confidential data including child passport scans and staff pay scales have been leaked following cyber-attacks in 2022
Personal Storage Table Files Accessed in Rackspace Attack
Incident struck in early December 2022
Security Industry Hits Back with MegaCortex Decryptor
Another ransomware variant bites the dust
Ransomware Disruption at The Guardian to Last at Least a Month
Famed newspaper was hit at the end of December
Hackers Leverage Compromised Fortinet Devices to Distribute Ransomware
The findings come from eSentire’s Threat Response Unit
Five Guys Discloses Data Breach Affecting Employee PII
The September incident exposed names, social security numbers and driver's license numbers
Over 200 Million Twitter Users' Details Leaked on Hacker Forum
The leaked data included names, usernames, email addresses, follower counts and creation dates
Cops Catch Serial Child Abuser After Tech Breakthrough
UK's National Crime Agency ends 13-year hunt for man
Meta to Appeal €390m GDPR Fine
Social media giant says legal basis for data processing was sound
